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Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

Laini Taylor

Angel, Bitter

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But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

Margaret Mitchell

Clouds, Storm, World

Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

William Henry Hudson

Sea, Green, Woods

William Henry Hudson (1964). “Birds and Green Places: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson”

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I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

Buzz Aldrin

Thinking, Moon, Achievement

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War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion.

Moncure D. Conway

Children, Real, War

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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

Adrienne Rich

People, Magic, Culture

Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone.
Why alone?
He's alone so that we might never be alone.

C. J. Mahaney

Jesus, Might, Christ

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Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

Dag Hammarskjold

Dream, Pain, Past

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...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.

Adolf Hitler

Destiny, Cities, Community

Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . . then I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home . . . If we are not rooted deeply in place, making that commitment to dig in and stay put . . . then I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. Then we enter a place of true desolation.

Terry Tempest Williams

Believe, Home, Commitment

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All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Soul, Comfort, Doe

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That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his satanic missionaries. The fact is that the historical experience of the black Jamaican is an experience of the most acute human suffering, desolation and despair in the cruel world that is the colonial world.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Biblical, Historical, Black

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If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Baruch Spinoza

Men, Slavery, Barbarism

"Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, translated by A. H. Gosset, (Ch. 6), 1883.

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In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Suicide, Gay, Boys

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.

Margaret Campbell Barnes

Gone, Oneself, Loses

Margaret Campbell Barnes (1949). “Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn”, London : Macdonald

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Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

Hermann Hesse

Love, Feelings, Admiration

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.52, Om Books International

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No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation
creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner
world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

J. B. Priestley

Faith, Light, Shadow

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Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Pain, People, World

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They make a desolation and call it peace.

Agha Shahid Ali

Farewell

Agha Shahid Ali (2009). “The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

Mark Twain

Dog, Math, Names

Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.224, Mark Twain

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We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.

Stephen Fry

Eye, Faces, Looks

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it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

Nadine Gordimer

Taken, Loss, Preparation

Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

El Greco

Artist, Soul, Spirit

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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Race, Self

Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.

Thomas Chalmers

Heart, Thinking, Soul

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